Bass Baritone

Biography

The bass-baritone Egils Silins was born in Latvia and graduated from the Latvian Academy of Music. He made his debut at the Latvian National Opera, performing in ‘Mephistopheles' (Boito). He has won ten international competitions and received the Latvian Annual Music Aware in 1996, 2003 and 2014.
He made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in ‘I Puritani'. He gained huge international acclaim singing the title role in ‘Le Demon' (Rubinstein) at the 1997 Bregenzer Festspiele. He has also performed at prestigious music festivals including The Tanglewood Music Festival, Savonlinna Opera Festival and Glyndebourne Festival.

He has recently performed Scarpia at Staatsoper Berlin, Ring/Wotan-Wanderer at Budapest Wagner festival and Tokio Nomori Festival, Kurwenal at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jochanaan at Ravinia Festival Chicago, Amfortas at New National Theater Tokio, Holländer at ROH Covent Garden.

Egils Silins next projects include Wotan and Wanderer at Leipzig Opera, Holländer at Düsseldorf Opera, Escamillo at Hamburg Opera, Mandryka at Oper Köln, Pizarro at Vienna State Opera, Ring/Wotan-Wanderer at Budapest Wagner festival and Tokyo Nomori Festival, Jago at Cincinnati Hall, as well as his return to Opera de Paris with Samson et Dalila and Lohengrin, among others.